Competitive Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides technology transfer, selling, and licensing services worldwide. The company identifies and commercializes, or finds companies that commercialize for it, technologies in life and physical sciences, electronics, and Nanotechnologies. Life sciences include medical testing, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, biotechnologies, medical devices, and other medical or biological applications. Physical sciences comprise chemical, display, and environmental applications. Electronics consist of communications, semiconductors, Internet related, e-commerce, and consumer electronics applications. Nanotechnologies deal with the manipulation of microscopic particles into useful arrangements, and smart or novel materials. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Fairfield, Connecticut.